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EaseUS Partition Master Free Edition has been a go-to recommendation for a powerful yet easy-to-use disk management utility that just happens to be free. A familiar layout with disk map plus a full User Manual and lots of Help resources make for a great start. Partition Master Free can format, copy, resize, move, and manage disk partitions as proficiently as its premium competitors. It supports removable drives and hardware RAID, too.

Pros

Powerful yet free: Partition Master Free can Resize, Move, Merge, Migrate, and Copy disks or partitions; convert to local, change label, defragment, check and explore partition; and much more. A premium upgrade adds free tech support and the ability to resize dynamic volumes, but the freeware more than meets most home users' needs.

Wizards: Migrating your OS to an ultra-fast SSD or a new HDD? Or maybe you want to clone or copy a partition? There's a Wizard for that (and more) on the toolbar. Partition Master Free is SSD-friendly, too.

Business License: Home business owners can obtain a Business License for Partition Master Free with a few clicks.

Cons

Toolbar "extras" and pop-up ads: The data recovery, backup, and bootable CD tools displayed on the toolbar and Advanced menu aren't available in Partition Master Free. True, occasional pop-up (or slide-in) ads for other EaseUS software can be annoying, but not as annoying as paying!

I got the Trojan:\VBS/Mutuodo.A Virus from download of EXTRAS, on the download, they try and hide the extras like Chromium, and trick you into downloading the extras like Chromium, and what comes along with the download is the Trojan:\VBS/Mutuodo.A Virus, for this is a nasty Virus, I had to do a system refresh in the Bios to get rid of this thing, this is a bad person or company to do something like this to people.

Summary

You have to be very careful when downloading freeware, and never get tricked into downloading Extras.

I had a drive that was split half-and-half into an NTFS partition (C:) and a FAT32 partition (D:), old PC, relatively small drive. Because the W10 update required 8GB (!), there was not enough space on C:. EaseUS partition master allowed me to convert D: to NTFS and then merge the two partitions.

Cons

For operations to complete, allowing the task to run its course and then permitting it to reboot is necessary. The program doesnt always seem to give feedback of what its doing. I cant be more specific, but the key is to take it one step at a time. With some patience, all will be well. When I did these ops I got a warning that the drive might not be usable if the program ran. I assume this is a legal caveat. Really, when you mess with HD directories, there's always a risk. For me, everything was fine.

Even though I declined the as usual somewhat cleverly hidden installer option to install unwanted additional programs, EaseUS still went on to install the following unwanted malware:
- Bytefence (Malwarebytes later remove +1000 unwanted Bytefence files)
- Chromium, not sure why, probably to auto-install search extension
- Chrome search extension. Fortunately Chrome warned me, so I could decline this twice.

Summary

Never install another EaseUS product. I had wanted to try their free backup software, as version 10 of the partition manager is really useful. However, after this experience I am never touching another EaseUS product again.

None. In order to finish the install I had to install a chrome extension I didn't want, so I didn't get to try the free version.

Cons

Free version installs a bunch of malware/adware, and tries to install a Chrome extension. Luckily my Malwarebytes caught the malicious software and websites. I also tried a trial of the pro version, but it wouldn't let me actually perform any changes to a drive unless I bought the software. I wouldn't consider that a trial. In addition, the uninstaller doesn't get rid of everything.

Summary

I had high hopes, but after my experiences I am not getting near any EaseUS software.

Does lots of free hard drive set up in a nice interface for a casual user. It keep the pay wall programs separate your not forced to click them.

Cons

It's one of those innocent programs now that you keep uninstalling when you have bad adware/malware problems because it always runs in the background... even if you have not used it in months so you uninstall it.

Summary

it's a good program to install when your not angry at freeware or paranoid in this always on broadband world.

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